Son of Dagobert I and Nanthilde. Clovis inherits Neustria and Burgundy, his half-brother Sigebert III inherits Austrasia. In 650, he married Bathilde, a slave who gave him three children:Clotaire III, Childéric II and Thierry III. Under his reign, Neustria experienced a period of calm and prosperity. The king showed great generosity, hence his nickname "Father of the poor". He is the first king to prefer the carriage harnessed to four oxen, to the horse, hence the allegory of lazy kings. He is buried in the abbey of Saint-Denis, at the age of 24.
Get the Emperors attention Louis Pasteur, born in 1822 in Dole, was already an eminent professor of physics and chemistry when Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte proclaimed the Second Empire in 1852. Deeply Bonapartist, Pasteur stayed more and more frequently in Paris. He entered the Academy of Sciences D